Gee, I don't know Anonymous. Maybe I'm just an angry old EV denizen who's weary of personality-less chains taking over where mom and pop shops used to be. Even The Bean wasn't a favorite but Starfucks is even less of one.

I don't love Starbucks and will definitely not be going there. However, I discourage everyone from expressing their dislike of Starbucks by poop bombing their bathrooms. Some overworked, underpaid barista/cashier will have to clean that shit (ha!) up and it's not like they get paid extra to handle janitorial duties (doodies? tee hee).

Anonymous, I mention The Bean as they were in this location prior to what will now be Starbucks moving in. The only ones who can afford high rents in this economy are, to my line of thinking, these rather unfortunate large chains. This is why places like Love Saves The Day, Wowsville, Finyl Vinyl, to name a few, have been replaced by Subway restaurants, Starbucks and banks. But hey, if that's what you prefer, to each his own.

I don't think Starbucks offers an inferior product -- the coffee comes in a variety of strengths, the specialty beverages are prepared with a nod to presentation and variety of options (whole/skim/low fat, soy, half decaf, blah blah blah LA Story), and the food/pastries are appealing and fresh.

That being said, the uniformity of such also makes it rather soulless.

The first Starbucks I ever patronized in NYC was at the airport, JFK, a looong time ago -- because it was the only place that Starbucks had managed to set up shop (someone can confirm the history). I'd read so much about this visionary, employee-centric business, with superb coffee too boot, that I was delighted to find it at the airport.

It was such a novelty, the boutique coffee shop.

Now it is the McDonald's of coffee shops, albeit with higher quality and price, but a predictable chain nonetheless.

Perhaps Starbucks should just become the I-95 coffee pit stop and leave our local 'hoods alone.

Starbucks has a business model that has worked because it's based on addicting young people to caffeine and sugar. REAL coffee doesn't taste like that. Starbucks roasts their coffee to within an inch of it's life to maximize the caffeine content, and even their Pikes Place (supposedly "normal" roast) coffee is undrinkable.

I'd go to a McDonalds, Dunkin', NYC Coffee Cart or diner before I buy anything from Starbucks.

As an EV resident for over 3 decades I can tell you that the only reason stores stayed was the cheap rents. Now that the EV has become a neighborhood with higher rents only the larger chains or some very successful specialty shop can afford to pay the rents. Those who love Bean will still be able to have their coffee and drink it too when they open their new space on Second Avenue and 3rd Street soon. Those who like Starbucks will have their haven as well. What's the problem? If you want to feel angry...aim your anger at the landlords who charge higher and higher commercial rents forcing out smaller shop owners who have served the EV since before you were born.

There are so many great coffee shops in the East Village, Starbucks has no place here. If we're going to have tourists, I'd rather they at least spent their money at local shops and got at least some idea of what it means to live in the East Village. Instead, they'll go straight for the Starbucks in the same way that they bee-line for the Olive Garden or Red Lobster in Times Square. It's a shame.

I'm really baffled by all this anti-starbucks anger. The Bean literally moved a block away. And they have locations all over the area. There's far more "Bean" down here than starbucks. It would be one thing if Starbucks put out a poor mom-and-pop coffee shop, but at least in this area of town, The Bean is ubiquitous.

The Bean's coffee was horrible and the place was dirty. I, for one -- a resident between Avenue C and D -- welcome Starbucks to the neighborhood. For heaven's sake. Of all the things to "protest." Starbucks seems to be a decent company run by decent people -- decent wages, healthcare, "fair trade" and all the rest...

So tired of the juvenile almost Communist rhetoric of some losers in this neighborhood.

Just spoke to a friend of mine who manages a starbucks. He said that this location is a new profit sharing store, the 4th in NYC , where some of the profits of those stores will go to the city of New York. NYC can then put that money toward schools and creating jobs. Starbucks has 20 profit sharing stores and more to come.

you 'haters' are ridiculous. if you actually lived here when the EV was gritty, you wouldnt even sneeze at this (starbucks opening) and if you were and actually still have some venom about stuff like this, then you are an aging-lifer-loser who is bitter about your horrible quality of life in the crappy rent-stabilized/controlled craphole that you still live in because your crappy band never got signed because of how commercial the horrible music industry is or whatever lame excuse youre using for your lame life.

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